I am preparing for my rack project and going through all my computer stuff to see what to keep is part of it. I found this KVM I was keeping around for when I find a power cable for it and I pulled it out last night to find out the contact info for the company. It has a DC 9V plug in the back and I thought it needed it, well the company tells me it does not, so for all this time I have had an expensive ($273 retail) KVM sitting around that I could have been using. It does screw up the text on the monitor, like ClearType doesn’t get sent. So I will not be using it for my main systems, partially because they are DVI, but with the rack setup it will be perfect. I should be getting my parts in this week and my rack so when I get everything installed I will post pictures.

So I feel like a real idiot. Somehow I never heard of a RAM Disk in Windows. I know Linux live cds use that concept but never thought about it to know if Windows had it. I found a number of utilities that will make them, almost all pay for, but from what I am seeing it is worth $50. I installed one that you create the disks from within the control panel and with Sandra 2007 the SCSI U320 comes in at 115mb/sec, this thing comes in at 738mb/sec. I was reading an article where someone dedicated 3GB to a RAM disk for Photoshop and now it runs like nobody’s business. I wonder if you can put the page file within the disk, that would be sorta pointless but I have read some games require a page file, so it would save the disk space, get the performance, and give you the page file. I’m still blown away by the 738mb/sec.